Lifehope Birmingham Outreach
As the Outreach began on
the Sunday, the OM team led the evening service, Melody from
Monday was a day to connect with the church members as we joined
them for their annual Easter Monday outing. They took us to
Coombe Abbey where we had a walk in the woods, enjoyed our lunch
in the open air and learned how to play cricket after a little
game of football.
Tuesday afternoon we split in to four different groups. One
group going to a park and inviting people, another going
tracting, one group doing home visits and another visiting a
hospital. In the evening we went out with Paul Atkin into
From Wednesday to Saturday morning we enjoyed leading a Kids’
holiday club. A small group of kids came the first two mornings
and this increased to 13 children on Saturday. We needed to run
the whole kids’ club and we were able to use all our creative
juices to prepare and lead these few mornings sharing with the
kids the amazing love of our heavenly Father and His son
Jesus!!!
Friday afternoon we were in the local park where we played
football with the kids and painted their faces. We gave them
balloon animals and invited them to come to the last day of the
kids’ club and the social event in the evening. We had great
fun!!! It was great to see how about 30 or so of the people we
met in the park showed up the same evening at church for the
social event where we explained the Gospel plain and clear!!!
We finished the second Sunday by leading the morning service.
Seven people shared testimonies of how God had changed and
challenged them, of which two were church members who were
involved with us the whole week. Carol stepped out of her
comfort zone and led the worship, we showed a little video about
the week in order that the church could see what had been done
and used a drama to share on unity, after which Melody preached
on unity.
"I have felt challenged this week to deepen my faith, step
out of my comfort zone and do things for God that I never
thought I could do. My relationship with God has been deepened
and I believe I have grown more over this week than other time
recently. I will go away from this outreach and continue to seek
God's will for my future involvement and I definitely feel that
my experience this week has helped me to gain valuable
experience. Therefore, overall I feel that this experience has
re-affirmed God's calling for me to His work and I will continue
to seek His will." Joe Grew,
"I had always thought that mission work is tough and hard to
survive. Indeed, I was wrong. God can really provide your
physical needs, for your outreach programme, if He has chosen
you to do a particular outreach. My relationship with God has
always been good, although I find it difficult to have a
consistent relationship with God. Coming to this OM Outreach
helped me to have a consistent relationship with Him”. Melissa
Lan,
"We invited some children in the park to the Kids’ Club. We
gave them balloons and told them about the face painting and
games. They convinced their parents to let them come. I was so
happy that the children were so open and it was easy to invite
them to come to the church. I hope they will continue coming”.
Corinna Haffelder,
"It was such a blessing - just to see God's work in
Credit:
OM Lifehope
© 2010
OM Lifehope